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Chandler, Arizona, United States

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The Judeo-Christian Values of Which Our Country Was Supposedly Founded

Sunday, January 27, 2008

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Perhaps the biggest lie told by Christians is that our government is based on Judeo-Christian values. If anyone ever mentions this to you, they probably aren't lying to you on purpose (although who the hell knows what their intentions are-- they're clearly ignorant), but they're telling you something that is an untruth. They were taught this somewhere along the line, and since Judeo-Christianity was obviously held in a positive light in their upbringing, they thought, yeah, why not, without bothering to think it through. The word "democracy" doesn't show up at all in the Bible, nor any variations of the word. Nor "Senate", nor "President", nor any concept of any form of government where representatives of the people create law. In fact, the very idea of a One True God that cannot be questioned nor held accountable to its actions and takes an active interest in the every-day goings on of its people is the definition of fascism, albeit in a heavenly form-- if you think I'm being facetious or hyperbolic for effect, look up the word "fascism". However, the words "Senate", "Represenative", "President", and "Democracy" are all words that come from the Roman Republic-- the very people who actually killed Jesus. It's not as if these words or ideas didn't exist at the time, they just have nothing to do with Judeo-Christian values. So our system is not only not based on Judeo-Christian values, it is actually based on the values of the people who were trying to destroy Judeo-Christian values, or at least subjugate it as a lower form.

Perhaps when people say that our government is based on Judeo-Christian values, they specifically mean that our rule of law is based on the Ten Commandments. This is also an untruth, as a quick and even most basic run through of the Ten Commandments shows: "You shall not have any gods before me"/ "You shall not make for yourself an idol"/ "Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy": All three commandments are anti-American. That would be against our freedom of religion. Anybody is allowed to have any gods before the Christian one, and can make as many idols as they so choose. They can also choose to completely ignore the holiness of the Sabbath, and may work on it if they please; a company can make its employees work on Sunday without any sort of compensation as well (although this specifically might vary from state to state, and was certainly a law in the first half of the 20th century). "You shall not speak the Lord's name in vain": Anti-American. That violates freedom of speech, America's most sacred right. It is also easily the most disobeyed commandment amongst Christians, if you don't interpret the "covet thy neighbor's wife" line in a later commandment as meaning "admire her in a sexual way"-- the Lord's name is used in vain on a day-to-day basis. "You shall honor your mother and father": Anti-American. While this is generally good advice and not honoring your mother and father is considered extremely reprehensible, we live in a society where children, at a certain age, are allowed to divorce their parents. Sometimes not honoring your mother and father is absolutely in the best interests for the health, sanity, and well being of a child. "You shall not commit adultry": Anti-American. While it's not a good idea to commit adultry on your spouse, this is a free country, and your fidelity is up to you. Adultry is certainly grounds for divorce in most cases, but it is not automatically grounds for divorce-- meaning that if a police officer finds out you cheated on your wife, no one will forcibly seperate the two of you. Also, there are many circumstances where adultry is a perfectly acceptable behavior, specifically when the two people are seperated but have not yet divorced. "You shall not lie": Anti-American. Freedom of speech. In the "bare false witness against thy neighbor" variant, it is true that you can't lie specifically on the witness stand, and you can't defame somebody, so I'll give it slack on that one. But in the looser, "you shall not lie" definition, it is absolutely Anti-American, and much as you may dislike it, lying is the main requirement of certain well-respected occupations, which I'm sure you don't have to think hard to bring to mind. "You shall not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his wife, nor his ass.": Anti-American. Covetting is called "capitalism". Maybe keeping up with the Jones' is a bad way to achieve self-fulfillment since you'll never truly be fulfilled, it's still what drives our economy.

Which leaves us with these: "You shall not murder". You could argue this one by saying we go to war and murder innocent people all the time, but at the same time the Bible has no specific qualms with war, and goes out of its way to explain in horrific detail what you should do to your enemy during war. Murder in a non-war, non-capital-punishment way is not generally condoned in the Bible, and generally is not in our country. "You shall not steal." That's also a no-no in any sense of the term here in America. Even broad definitions of stealing, such as setting up the stock market in such a way as you can potentially steal is against the law. While you could argue that laws are set up to allow the coporate world to steal from people every day, that's kind of a grey area, and I'll allow it as a rule that stands true in our government in general.

So out of the entire Ten Commandments, 7 of them can immediately be disqualified as anti-American, and an 8th one can be argued, depending on how you interpret its wording. Two, maybe three commandments of the Judeo Christian values are part of our government, and let it also be known that those two or three commandments are laws in every single religion on the planet. There is no religion that allows for stealing, lying, and murdering. But if you want to credit those three laws to Judeo Christianity, you would be kinda true. But to say that our government or rule of law is based on Judeo Christian values is completely and utterly a falsehood, and to really make any argument otherwise is ignorant and wrong. This is also why any idea of putting the Ten Commandments on the grounds of American courthouses is sheer idiocy and and has no grounds in rationality.
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with love from CRS @ 7:34 AM 

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